Chain Reaction and Chaos: Toward Modern Persia

The United States, Europe, January 11, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Today, the shockwaves of the cataclysm that became known as the Islamic

Revolution have irrevocably transcended Iran’s frontiers. The revolution

"Sadegh Shajari's book on nuclear Iran represents a remarkable contribution to our understanding of what is at stake. The credibility of this book is rooted in that of its author. A trained nuclear scientist, Shajari has since the days of the Shah been directly implicated in Iranian nuclear policy. He continued his involvement in the nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic before breaking with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. Still preoccupied by the current situation, the author is a strong advocate for a denuclearized Middle East.

Bernard Ravenel, French historian and co-founder of the French periodical, Confluences Mediterranean

was a byproduct of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which in turn was

a product of the great powers’ array of geostrategic moves following World

War II.

This book explores the order that underlies Iran’s chaotic dynamics that

have potential to bring about unintended results.

The best example of this is

President Carter’s human rights policy, which, unexpectedly, via strange

attractor dynamics, led to the fall of the Shah that marked the end of the U.S.

twin-pillar policy in the Persian Gulf. After the revolution, the impact of U.S.

policies in Iran were not the same as before. Under the Shah, the system only

reduced the speed of wave propagation, producing refraction. While the Islamic

State attempted to act as a reflective surface.

The hidden forces that govern Iran’s political scene would remain unknown

if we do not focus on the confrontation between modernism and

traditionalism that led to Iran’s revolution, internal power struggle, rivalry of

vested interests, efforts to politicize science, wars, the security dilemma in

the Persian Gulf, rationales of Iranian policy with regard to the collapse of

the Soviet Union and rise of China—as a source of challenges between the

United States and Iran in the Middle East—and unceasing conflicts between

archaic religious ideologies. The book seeks to provide an answer to how and

why Iran evolved in this manner.

• Paperback: 318 pages
• Publisher: University Press of America (December 22, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761865217
• ISBN-13: 978-0761865216
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches